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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2006-02-24

So, What Did We Learn This Week?

We learned that the administration approved a deal turning over administration of six US ports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates.

We learned that the President doubled down, threatening to veto legislation that would block the deal.

We learned that there may have been a secret deal between the U.S. and the U.A.E. regarding allowing the deal to go through.

We learned that Congress is up in arms, to the point of scuttling the deal--both Democrats and Republicans.

We learned that the purchase of the port operations would probably not change too much of what happens in our ports.

We learned that backing out of the deal, at this point, would probably cost us a great deal in public relations in the Arab world (but then, what doesn't?).

We learned that Robert Kaplan makes a very good case for letting this deal go forward.

But what's the most important thing we learned this week?

That, after Cindy Sheehan, Katrina, Harriet Meyers, the Social Security fix, and many other debacles since re-election . . .

THE WHITE HOUSE STILL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD--NO, NOT EVEN AN EFFECTIVE--NO, NOT EVEN A COMPETENT--PUBLIC RELATIONS GAME!!

You get the feeling that the White House is much better at campaigning than they are at governing. And I say that fully aware of the almost incalculably important successes of John Roberts and Sam Alito.

It doesn't much matter if you can win elections if you can't manage to do anything with the office. Don't you think?
Posted by: Michael / 2/24/2006 10:46:00 PM

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